Holding institution title: W.89, Book of Hours, French (1380, Paris)
Holding institution classification: Book of Hours
Holding institution location: Baltimore, MD
URL: https://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W89/description.html
URL2: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/viewer.php?id=W.89
Digitization status: Digitized
Date: 1375-1400
Language(s): French, Latin
Use: Paris
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Paris
Illumination contents: St. Catherine, St. Margaret in prayer before God, Isabelle of Coucy in prayer before the Virgin and Child, Conjoined arms of Isabelle de Coucy and Raoul II de Raineval in initial D, Arms of Raoul II de Raineval in initial D, Arms of Isabelle de Coucy in initial D, Raoul II de Raineval in initial D, Arms of Isabelle de Coucy in initial D, Arms of Raoul II de Raineval in initial D, Arms of Raoul II de Raineval in initial D, Arms of Isabelle de Coucy in initial C, Arms of Raoul II de Raineval in initial D
Text contents: Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization: Created c. 1380 to commemorate the wedding of Raoul II de Raineval (d. 1392) and Isabelle de Coucy (d. 1413). Contains illuminated heraldic initials with the arms of Coucy and Raineval at canonical divisions, and combined heraldry at Matins in the Hours of the Virgin highlighting the marriage. The bride is depicted in a donor portrait kneeling in front of the seated Virgin and Child in one of the prefatory miniatures (f. 3v) with Coucy’s heraldic shield.
Scribe: Unknown
Illuminator: Unknown
Patron: Raoul II de Raineval
Materials: Parchment
Binding original?: No
Binding description: Rebound by Léon Gruel, Paris, late nineteenth or early twentieth century; red leather over possibly original wooden boards; possibly original sewing, sewn on five tawed (?) thongs; clasps are modern; fore-edge tabs contemporary with rebinding
Folio height (in centimeters): 11.5
Folio width (in centimeters): 8.3
